Baltimore Orioles Baseball
What Is Too Much For Chris Davis?
The news (as reported by Ken Rosenthal / FOX Sports) earlier today was that the Baltimore Orioles have offered Chris Davis a contract possibly as high as 7 years, $168M.(EDIT: The latest news per ESPN's Buster Olney is that the O's have pulled their offer to Davis....
Reviewing The Orioles Roster & Current Options
The Winter Meetings are in their third full day, and FanFest for the Baltimore Orioles is this weekend. Here we look at the O's roster as it currently exists, and again discuss the seemingly available options.(You can discuss this on the BSL Board here.)The Roster As...
Orioles Acquire Mark Trumbo, Good Move?
Today, the Orioles completed a trade that sends Mark Trumbo, along with another player, to Baltimore for Mt St Joseph alum Steve Clevenger. When we entered the off-season, Clevenger was the likely back up catcher, behind Joseph. The Orioles thought Wieters would...
Baltimore Orioles Off-season Roundtable: The Winter Meetings Loom
The 2015 Winter Meetings begin December 6th in Nashville at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center (pictured above). With that date fast-approaching, Baltimore Sports and Life's (BSL) Orioles Analysts - Gary Armida, Jonathan Bernhardt, and Rob Shields -...
Baltimore Orioles Minor League Update
The only teams in Major League Baseball that have the revenue streams to potentially be successful without a strong Minor League system are the New York Yankees, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Even for those teams, a barren organization would be limiting.For the Baltimore...
Why The Orioles Should Trade Britton
The bullpen in major league baseball is becoming more and more of a premium area teams are focusing on. After seeing the success of the Royals the last few years, culminating with a World Championship this season, teams are trying to replicate that. We saw Craig...
3 Strikes: Change For Certainty
We crave certainty; we like knowing--or believing that we know--what's coming up next. Change scares most people. While most people put up the pretense of liking change, most would rather settle in to the expected. Change in sports is even scarier. Change in sports...
Browsing the Braves
There might be something of a fire sale going on in Atlanta.After dealing top closer Craig Kimbrel to the Padres last year and elite shortstop Andrelton Simmons to the Angels just a week or so ago, FOX Sports national writer Ken Rosenthal reported that a source...